A control device for an automatic transmission of a vehicle delays or reserves a switching from one shift pattern to another for a predetermined time when a gear change occurs at the time of the shift pattern switching. When a shift pattern is to be switched from one to the other while the vehicle is running at a certain speed range in the one shift pattern, the switching is reserved temporarily a...

PURPOSE:To eliminate color misalignment, color irregularities and linear image disorder by positioning a transport device guidance member supported in freely rotatable manner, heads or a positioning device with fixed heads through striking rollers. CONSTITUTION:Transport device guidance members 115C to 115BK supported in rotatable manner are provided inside a transport belt 101 for transporting re...

PURPOSE:To provide possibility of stabilizing the seated condition by installing a basis on the ends of a floor panel placing part, and arranging the oversurface of this basis approx. flush with the general portion of the floor panel placing part. CONSTITUTION:A seat cushion 22 is put on the general portion 25b of a part 25 on which a floor panel 24 is placed, and those end parts 25a of this floor...

Octacalcium phosphate and hydroxyapatite are provided, where octacalcium phosphate is produced as single crystals and organized polycrystalline structures that are non-dense by a process involving contemporaneous addition of calcium cation and phosphate anion to an aqueous medium at pH 4 to 7 and a temperature of 60-90 DEG C. Spherulites formed have substantially uniform blade-like crystals extend...

PURPOSE: To improve simple and efficient mounting, the quiet operation and the abrasion resistance by inserting a mold corresponding to an internal mold of a thread and a core corresponding to a shape of a returning groove into an opening of a nut, filling the opening with hardening materials having good fluidity, forming a returning piece, and removing the mold and the core after hardening. CONST...

Fungicidal granules comprise by wt. 5-95 wt. % of a phosphite fungicide, in solid or solidified form, 0.1-8% of a wetting agent, 0.3-15% of a dispersing agent and 0-50% of a support, the granules having a size of 0.1-10 mm. Pref. the granules contain 0.5-5% wetting agent e.g. an alkylaryl-sulphonate salt, a salt of a polycarboxylic acid, a polycondensate of ethylene oxide with a fatty alcohol with...

A lighting module for use in a motor vehicle headlighting system which includes a plurality of such modules and means for mounting the modules in the vehicle in a pair of spaced-apart linear, horizontally disposed arrays. Each array possesses a maximum height of only about two inches and a length greater than the array height. Each module includes a reflector with a lighting capsule mounted therei...

Disclosed is a matrix material for implantation in a mammalian host comprising biocompatible mineral-free type I bone collagen, xenogenic to the host, and biodegradable therewithin. The matrix is manufactured from protein-extracted bone powder treated with certain swelling agents to increase its surface area and porosity. The matrix may be combined with osteogenic protein to induce reliably and re...

A medical material permitting cells to enter thereinto which comprises a modified collagen prepared by heat-treating collagen having a crosslinked structure in the presence of water is disclosed. An artificial skin using this medical material as a wound-contacting layer is also disclosed.

A ceramic material for use as artificial bone and dental root is provided which takes the form of a composite sintered body comprising crystalline calcium phosphate grains as a matrix and inorganic whiskers dispersed therein. An intermediate layer containing elements in either one or both of the whiskers and the grains intervenes between the whiskers and the grains. The material has physical tough...

An ink cartridge (51) interchangeably provided for an ink jet recording apparatus provided with a recording head for causing the discharge of ink to thereby effect the recording of an image, and containing the ink therein and effecting the supply of the ink in conformity with the discharge of the ink is characterized by the provision of a medium (15) provided with information for controllinig the ...

A method for preparing deagglomerated fibres and/or particles and for providing the fibres and/or particles with a substantially uniform protective coating, the fibres and/or particles being of a material selected from the group consisting of carbides oxides, nitrides, silicides, borides, metals and graphite, including SiC, TiC, ZrC, WC, NbC, AlN, TiN, BN, Si3N4, MgO, Al2O3, SiO2, ZrO2, Fe2O3, Y2O...

A method of controlling the level of entrained air in hydraulic cement compositions is disclosed comprising the sequential steps of preparing a hydraulic cement composition in the form of an aqueous slurry containing an air entraining plasticizer and a defoamer, and increasing the air content of the composition by adding to said composition an air entraining agent. This method prevents undesired a...

A heat engine comprises a regenerator 3 on one side of which is a hot chamber 5 and on the other side a cold chamber 8, each equipped with a piston to enable the temperature, pressure and volume of a quantity of gas contained therein to be altered as required. The movement of the pistons is so arranged that the work done on the gas when it passes through the regenerator from the hot to the cold ch...

A regenerable deep bed filter element provided as a closed system, in the case of which a deep bed filter (21), disposed inside at least one hollow-cylindrical chamber (17), if formed by a bulk material filling of regenerable, filtration-active substances of a particulate and/or fibrous structure. The hollow-cylindrical chamber can be flowed through radially by means of porous inner and outer peri...

In this method for reduced pressure lamination of a light sensitive material in film form to a printed circuit base board, when adhering the light sensitive material in film form comprising a flexible support either continuous or cut to the dimensions of the base board and a light sensitive layer to the printed circuit base board under reduced pressure, a main container for carrying out the adhesi...

Composition, primarily for anticorrosive and insulating coating, which can be used mainly as anticorrosive coating of car frames, as well as in the building and construction industry as water insulating coating on roof and wall surfaces made of concrete, wood, etc. The composition consists of 40 to 90 volume %, advantageously 50 to 70 volume %, of rubber grist, 0,5 to 30 volume %, advantageously 2...

PCT No. PCT/GB90/01063 Sec. 371 Date Jan. 10, 1992 Sec. 102(e) Date Jan. 10, 1992 PCT Filed Jul. 10, 1990 PCT Pub. No. WO91/00750 PCT Pub. Date Jan. 24, 1991.A disposable hypodermic syringe is disclosed having a barrel (4), a hub (1) and needle holder (2) locatable on the barrel, a plunger (5) with a piston (13) at one end thereof slideable within the barrel, and an interlockable structure on the ...

An apparatus (10) for draining fluids, for example, from a chest or pleural cavity, includes a collection chamber (12) for collecting fluids through an inlet port (36) for entry of the fluids. Also included is a dry or waterless suction control chamber (16) in fluid communication with the collection chamber (12) for regulating the degree of vacuum imposed in the collection chamber. If desired, a s...